This website organizes responses, explanations, and decrees from Notitiae and sometimes from other sources (such as AAS) that are not readily available in other places. The goal is to provide the original text, an English translation, and a PDF scan of the relevant pages from Notitiae or other source. In some ways, the project is a further development of my Cross-Referenced Ordo Missae. This is an ongoing prject which I work on in my spare time. I am also grateful for the help of Rev. Daniel Gill, Mr. Radosław Gosiewski, and Mr. Abram Córdova y Muenzberg in transcribing some of these responses and also to Mr. Johan Oliveire and Miss Crista Mootz for helping to translate certain responses into English. PDFs are available even for texts that have not yet been transcribed.

N.B. In Notitiae 1 (1965) and 2 (1966), this notice appears above the responses: The solution which is proposed takes on no official character. It has only an orientative force; solutions will be published officially, if the case warrants, by the competent Authority in « Acta Apostolicae Sedis ».

8. Whether it is permitted, until the church can be properly renovated, to place a portable altar in the form of a simple table in front of a high altar which is fixed and made of precious marble so that it might be used for the celebration of Mass facing the people?

Resp.: In the affirmative, as long as a) a truly notable space intervenes between each altar; b) but it is to be preferred that a portable altar would be placed outside the sanctuary, in which case it should have a sufficient space around it, after the manner of the sanctuary, properly distinct from the nave of the church.